microgrants vs open-funding

microgrants

A list of microgrant programs for your good ideas (by nayafia)

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A guide for researching ways of funding open source projects. (by ralphtheninja)

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microgrants		open-funding
	Project
9	Mentions	2
1,438	Stars	652
-	Growth	-
3.8	Activity	4.2
5 days ago	Latest Commit	over 2 years ago
	Language
Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal	License	-

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

microgrants

Posts with mentions or reviews of microgrants. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-25.

Ask HN: Good Resources for Microgrants/Microfunding?
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Oct 2022

https://github.com/nayafia/microgrants is a quite big list for exactly what you need. This was top result in google after a quick search on your exact post title.
Open Microgrants
1 project | /r/opensource | 26 Aug 2022

A wonderful list of (micro-)grants for OSS maintainers trying to get funding by Nadia Asparouhova on GitHub: https://github.com/nayafia/microgrants opensource
A list of microgrant programs for your good ideas
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Jul 2022

1 project | /r/programming | 5 Jan 2021

1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Jan 2021
We Fund Public Interest Tech
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Dec 2021
Getting paid
5 projects | /r/freesoftware | 18 Sep 2021
Flutter final year project ideas
1 project | /r/FlutterDev | 14 Sep 2021
The road ahead for MirageOS in 2021
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Jan 2021

US government supported one of the biggest open-tech funds which unfortunately has been on pause since last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23636498
These are not US specific but worth a look nevertheless:
https://github.com/nayafia/microgrants
https://nlnet.nl/propose/

open-funding

Posts with mentions or reviews of open-funding. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-25.

Open Funding
1 project | /r/opensource | 23 Aug 2022

A great resource for opensource maintainers looking for funding by Ralph (the Ninja) on GitHub: https://github.com/ralphtheninja/open-funding monetization
We Fund Public Interest Tech
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Dec 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing microgrants and open-funding you can also consider the following projects:

lemonade-stand - A handy guide to financial support for open source

monetization-platforms - Crowdsourced list of monetization platforms for creators

open-source-jobs - A list of Open Source projects offering jobs.

Grants-Program - Apply for Grants to build on the Mintbase infrastructure.

liberapay.com - Source code of the recurrent donations platform Liberapay

grants-program - Bepro Network Grants Program

Bountysource - Bountysource is the funding platform for open-source software.

grants-and-bounties - TON Foundation invites talent to imagine and realize projects that have the potential to integrate with the daily lives of users.

research-RFPs - Protocol Labs Research Grants

flatpaks - Personal Flatpak manifests I've written for anyone that wants to maintain

grants-program - Welcome to the Stacks Foundation Grant Program. Community members interested in submitting a grant proposal may do so by opening an issue in this repository and filling out the grant application.